Sports

Life's a pitch!

Roadrunners club softball cancels its 2005 Fall season

By Jennifer Hankins
jhankin4@mscd.edu

In softball, sometimes there are strikeouts; sometimes there are missed catches and sometimes the ball is simply overthrown.

For the Metro women's softball team, all of these tasks will remain impossible.

Why? Because they do not have enough players to field a team, at least not this fall.

For coach Kelly Jones, this is a letdown for the Fall season. Although the main season for Women's softball is not until spring, the hope of having a fall club-team was high. The question that arises now is, "How will Metro possibly add Women's softball as a varsity sport if it can't get it together as an intercollegiate sport?"

Maybe there are not enough of our students who know how great this team will be in 2007, the year they plan to become varsity.

Let's take a look at last season.

When the 13 women, ages 17-30, who made up the roster headed to Baltimore, where the national championships were held, they took 12th place overall and 2nd in Colorado, behind the Air Force Academy.

"We are only a year-old sport, but have done very well considering how hastily we were put together last year," Jones said.

As for this spring, the team is hoping to go to the Nationals in West Virginia, home of last year's national champions. Of course, this is after the regular season games take place and they face some local, regional teams.

"We play several teams nearby throughout the season," Jones said," including Air Force, CU-Boulder, the University of Wyoming and Weber (Utah)."

It will be exciting to see the progress Women's softball makes between next spring and 2007. This season, unfortunately, was just a swing and a miss.